Comments on: Mysterious barrier blocks access to delicious human child

By: IamInnocent

IamInnocent — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:59:00 +0000

Yet, not quite as much as humans sometimes.

By: dragonfrog

dragonfrog — Sat, 05 May 2012 05:36:00 +0000

Mountain lion, cougar, puma, panther – same scary beast.

By: Sparrow

Sparrow — Fri, 04 May 2012 16:12:00 +0000

Every time I go to a bar, the cougars sizing people up tend to creep me out.

By: lava

lava — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:50:00 +0000

I get it now. This is sort of like Schrödinger’s Baby.

By: lava

lava — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:48:00 +0000

She is ripped, is’nt she?

By: TrollyMcTrollington

TrollyMcTrollington — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:23:00 +0000

No lunch for you

By: Martijn Vos

Martijn Vos — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:22:00 +0000

Good kid. At some point he’s almost staring down the lion that tries to eat him.

By: IamInnocent

IamInnocent — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:00:00 +0000

I had a similar experience with a 4 y/o boy and mountain lions in Quebec City. As much as I hate to see them captive, I can’t deny that I felt utterly furious at the animals.

By: Sparg

Sparg — Fri, 04 May 2012 02:39:00 +0000

Yup. My cat would bring me all sorts of critters, but she always crunched the heads for herself.

By: Jesse Nikolic

Jesse Nikolic — Fri, 04 May 2012 00:13:00 +0000

I’m reasonably surprised the boingboing comments aren’t full of concern-trolls as well.

By: billstewart

billstewart — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:59:00 +0000

Were they about you being unable to get the potato chips open? Or about your cat going for the bag of them? Mine wouldn’t be bothered by the force field, he’d just keep shredding until he got it open, and found they weren’t cat treats.

By: billstewart

billstewart — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:57:00 +0000

Sorry, but I’ve got cats too, and I recognize that behaviour. Kitteh may be cute, but that baby looks just like a giant kitteh treat. Not used to seeing it in lions, though.

Sigfried and Roy’s Garden in Las Vegas (out behind the Mirage Casino, assuming it’s still there) has a bunch of cats who aren’t busy with the show right now. The lions and tigers are usually asleep most of the day, and if there are small children around they’re like, yeah, whatever. The leopard has a cage about 20′ long, and one time we were there and there was a kid who’d gotten separated from his herd\\family, and the leopard was just pacing back and forth looking at him, thinking “I’m gonna eat him! He’s lunch! When he gets just a bit farther from the herd, I’m gonna jump over the fence and eat him! Mine!” and this was no kitty playing, this was pure focused predator intent on jumping him. After a while the kid got back together with his herd, and the leopard backed off a bit, and a little later on another small herd of smaller kids walked by, and he was back to the “I can eat all three of those! It’s only going to take one jump! Roar, nom nom, they’re mine!”

By: DevinC

DevinC — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:20:00 +0000

I had not, but thank you for reminding me of James Thurber. And thanks in advance to anyone else who reminds me of James Thurber, too.

By: Tim Noble

Tim Noble — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:00:00 +0000

The Circle of Life done broke.

By: Gatto

Gatto — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:21:00 +0000

Never trust a lioness :) They’re actually the ones who hunt. The males generally stay home with the cubs because their mane makes hunting impractical.

( The whole “king of the jungle thing” is either because a) kings don’t do a whole lot either, or b) because observations by human naturalists are skewed by their own perception of gender. )

By: Terri Sweeney

Terri Sweeney — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:31:00 +0000

Where’s Walt Disney when you need him?

Shouldn’t the lion be singing?

By: spacemunky

spacemunky — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:52:00 +0000

How did I know the YouTube comments would all be concern-trolls yelling “child endangerment”….

By: L_Mariachi

L_Mariachi — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:47:00 +0000

All children that age are nonplussed.

By: relawson

relawson — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:41:00 +0000

When I first saw this clip my immediate thought was how great of an opportunity for close up kid-level still shots at the right angle.

By: relawson

relawson — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:39:00 +0000

Just because you think they’re doing it on purpose to annoy you doesn’t mean they’re not…

Now i’ll give you something else to think about… the letters OCD are in the wrong order…

By: Nadreck

Nadreck — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:24:00 +0000

Lexan: the child’s best friend! There’s an underwater viewing gallery (to view things under water, the gallery itself is quite dry) at the Toronto zoo where you can look at polar bears swimming about. Every so often a paw the size of a dinner plate zips out to test the integrity of the window near your head.

By: Alexander Sirkman

Alexander Sirkman — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:23:00 +0000

Yes, I too decry any video which includes an aspect of modern society I disagree with! Especially any video in which a baby is NOT eaten; I mean, really, what else do they even do?

By: Eric 'Cashew' Harding

Eric 'Cashew' Harding — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:22:00 +0000

The parents giggling and wowing make this sound like a skit on “Portlandia”

By: Rich Keller

Rich Keller — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:56:00 +0000

This could be a way to test hypotheses about aposematic, AKA warning, coloration. Dress your baby up like an arrow frog and put them in front of the jaguar cage at the zoo…

By: Mister44

Mister44 — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:50:00 +0000

”Lighten up, Francis.”

By: lava

lava — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:20:00 +0000

Right at the very end lil Jack sees the Lion open his mouth all bitey like, and he’s like WTF?

By: ikelleigh

ikelleigh — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:18:00 +0000

No, I’m pretty sure they are doing it on purpose to toy with my OCD.

By: solid_ekans

solid_ekans — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:15:00 +0000

This makes my primitive primate brain go , “AAAAAAAAAUUUUUGHHHH!” And then run away.

By: cbirdsong

cbirdsong — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:13:00 +0000

Not sure it’s a craze as much as result of cell phones allowing video to be shot that way and people not thinking about it in the moment.

By: bardfinn

bardfinn — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:12:00 +0000

CAN’T LIKE ENOUGH